Scarlet

That tall girl with the fiery red hair who works on payments and banking.

[Scarlet @NekomimiScience]

ggwp to the lighting guy, who somehow worked multiple lasers into an orchestral concert. 🫡

[Scarlet @NekomimiScience]

Where in the world is the Scarlet?

[Scarlet @NekomimiScience]

@icelynjennings Correct!

[Scarlet @NekomimiScience]

@nyarth Oh you got to go in the front entrance. We got sent around the side and missed the merch. 👀

[Scarlet @NekomimiScience]

@wan_m_i Even as a great exardian, she so often uses slang that I haven't heard since I was in school over 15 years ago! 😭

[Scarlet @NekomimiScience]

@nyarth Glad I wasn't the only one with that running through my head when I heard about it.

[Scarlet @NekomimiScience]

@Kisama_inatasha Truly! I never thought I would see the day. ^^

[Scarlet @NekomimiScience]

Hololive? In the UK?? It's more likely than you'd think.

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@ArtfulDragon Yep, Genesis cinema. Right between those two stations.

[Scarlet @NekomimiScience]

The All For One London screening had this magical ability to throw me back ~10 years to before I became a Boring Adult. Back when my calendar revolved around conventions and meeting up with UK anitwitter. It was so good. ❤️

[Scarlet @NekomimiScience]

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@moogdayo Home territory advantage at work there tbh. Of course the Blood Flame Kingdom would cheer loudest for our queen! :p

[Scarlet @NekomimiScience]

@stargazermellu Highly recommended!

The comments on this announcement over on 小红书 are great, people asking “Is this leak accurate?” on the official post and all.

[Scarlet @NekomimiScience]

@nucknyan It is so telling when people in my LAN group actively choose to buy a game on Steam (sometimes at full price!) even if they already got it free on the Epic Games Store.

[Scarlet @NekomimiScience]

@a66ot Almost all issuers have a process where if a customer is in a negative balance (with no overdraft), they will be asked to add money. If the customer remains in a negative balance, their account will be closed and the issuer will attempt to reclaim from the merchant via disputes.

[Scarlet @NekomimiScience]

@a66ot Yes, that will go through, but the customer/issuer will have dispute rights (in most cases) because you didn't obtain an authorisation.

Holding a pre-authorisation guarantees that you can claim that money at presentment time.

[Scarlet @NekomimiScience]

@a66ot I have no idea what Revolut is doing behind the scenes but you can't decline a presentment and the contactless framework means it can't be charged back under normal circumstances so either it has to be reclaimed from the customer via a negative balance or the issuer takes a loss.

[Scarlet @NekomimiScience]

I can entirely believe this. have watched entire teams of very smart and highly educated people get outclassed by one person with some local street smarts and a good vibe check

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

Heard an incredible story about Stripe's expansion in Romania

Wanted to build out a 20-person fraud detection team to be closer to the "source"

Rented a whole floor, posted senior engineer positions with €1,200/month salary

Then they interviewed the guy named Marius

"What's your experience with unauthorized transactions?" Stripe HR asked

"I once moved three BMWs from Munich to Constantia in 24h, without technically owning them"

Hired on the spot

By lunch, he'd identified a card theft ring Stripe had been tracking for months

"Those transactions from Germany? That must be Misha crew, they drive there every second Tuesday"

Turns out Marius catches more fraud in a day than Stripe's entire SF team did in a month

Stripe saves on office expenses too as Marius works remotely from his uncle's betting shop in Timisoara

Silicon Valley just discovered what we've always known

One Romanian is worth twenty Stanford engineers

Another incredible win for Europe